Plant-inspired materials and surfaces

Project Information

PlaMatSu

Grant agreement ID: 722842

DOI

10.3030/722842

Project closed

EC signature date 11 July 2016

Start date 1 October 2016

End date 30 September 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 2 348 245,60

EU contribution

€ 2 348 245,60

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
United Kingdom

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Other (9)

Winter School
Regular press releases

Regular press releases due in month 10 20 30 45

Press release to announce PlaMatSu
Session on “Bio-inspired Materials” at Conference Freiburg Macromolecular Colloquium
Workshop on R&D and job application
Positions advertisement

advertisement of open positions

Workshop on technology and innovation
Winter School Proceedings
Workshop on soft skills

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Exhibition in Freiburg

Exhibition in Freiburg; concerns all beneficiaries

PlaMatSu first website pages online

Project Website

Exhibition in Cambridge

Exhibition in Cambridge, concerns all beneficiaries

Documents, reports (9)

Biomimetic insect repellent surface

Biomimetic insect repellent surface; responsible Prof. Steiner

Layered polymer hybrid materials with stimuli-responsive colour properties

Layered polymer hyprid materials, responsible Prof. Bruns

Tuning of colour of wrinkled cellulose films obtained

Tuning of colour of wrinkled cellulose films obtained; responsible Prof. Vignolini

Integrated model for plant cuticle patterning, combining mechanical and chemical data

Integrated model; responsible Prof. Glover

Conferences (abstracts)

Conferences abstracts concerns all beneficiaries du in months 1240

Controlled release of lubricants and waxes from layered materials

controlled release, Prof. Bruns

Transport properties of CNC-containing cuticular membrane mimics

properties of CNC-containing cuticular membrane mimics, responsible Prof. Weder

Comparison of surface properties of selected species at different states of ontogeny and grown under different environmental conditions

Comparison of surface properties, Responsible Prof. Speck

Papers (20-30 expected)

Papers (20-30 expected), concerns all beneficiaries, due from month 24-48

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (26)

Asymmetric Mass Transport through Dense Heterogeneous Polymer Membranes: Fundamental Principles, Lessons from Nature, and Artificial Systems.

Author(s): Aristotelis Kamtsikakis; Christoph Weder
Published in: Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Issue 43, 3, 2022, Page(s) 2100654, ISSN 1521-3927
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/marc.202100654

Polymerization‐Induced Wrinkled Surfaces with Controlled Topography as Slippery Surfaces for Colorado Potato Beetles

Author(s): Johannes B. Bergmann, Dafni Moatsou, Venkata A. Surapaneni, Marc Thielen, Thomas Speck, Bodo D. Wilts, Ullrich Steiner
Published in: Advanced Materials Interfaces, Issue 7/12, 2020, Page(s) 2000129, ISSN 2196-7350
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202000129

Polysaccharide metabolism regulates structural colour in bacterial colonies

Author(s): Gea T. van de Kerkhof; Lukas Schertel; Laura Catòn; Thomas G. Parton; Karin H. Müller; Heather F. Greer; Colin J. Ingham; Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Issue 19, 190, 2022, Page(s) 20220181, ISSN 1742-5662
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0181

Chiral self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals is driven by crystallite bundles

Author(s): Thomas G. Parton; Richard M. Parker; Gea T. van de Kerkhof; Aurimas Narkevicius; Johannes S. Haataja; Bruno Frka-Petesic; Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 2657, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30226-6

The cellular and genetic basis of structural colour in plants

Author(s): Chiara A. Airoldi, Jordan Ferria, Beverley J Glover
Published in: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Issue 47, 2019, Page(s) 81-87, ISSN 1369-5266
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2018.10.002

Insect Antiadhesive Surfaces Using Electrosprayed Wrinkled Ethyl Cellulose Particles.

Author(s): Johannes B. Bergmann; Alexandre Redondo; Ullrich Steiner; Bodo D. Wilts; Dafni Moatsou
Published in: ACS Applied Materials Interfaces, Issue 13, 7, 2021, Page(s) 9232-9238, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c21602

Bio-inspired materials to control and minimise insect attachment

Author(s): Ullrich Steiner; Dafni Moatsou; Bodo Wilts; Johannes Bergmann
Published in: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Issue 17, 5, 2022, Page(s) 051001, ISSN 1748-3182
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ac91b9

Polarity in cuticular ridge development and insect attachment on leaf surfaces of Schismatoglottis calyptrata (Araceae)

Author(s): Venkata A. Surapaneni; Tobias Aust; Thomas Speck; Marc Thielen
Published in: Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, Issue 12, 2021, Page(s) 1326-1338, ISSN 2190-4286
Publisher: Beilstein-Institut Zur Forderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften
DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.12.98

Measurements of periodically perturbed dewetting force fields and their consequences on the symmetry of the resulting patterns

Author(s): Konstantinos Roumpos; Sarah Fontaine; Thomas Pfohl; Oswald Prucker; Jürgen Rühe; Günter Reiter
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 13149, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92544-x

Deconvoluting the Optical Response of Biocompatible Photonic Pigments

Author(s): Zhen Wang; Chun Lam Clement Chan; Johannes S. Haataja; Lukas Schertel; Ruiting Li; Gea T. van de Kerkhof; Oren A. Scherman; Richard M. Parker; Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, Issue 61, 34, 2022, Page(s) e202206562, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202206562

Rheological Properties of Blends of Isotactic Polystyrene–Isotactic Poly( para -methylstyrene) Films Derived from a Comparative Dewetting Study

Author(s): Austine A. Mulama, Konstantinos Roumpos, L. Pradipkanti, Andrew O. Oduor, Günter Reiter
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 53/20, 2020, Page(s) 9122-9130, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01469

Disordered wax platelets on Tradescantia pallida leaves create golden shine

Author(s): Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Lukas Schertel, Rebecca Nokjan Poon, Gianni Jacucci, Beverley J. Glover, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Faraday Discussions, Issue 223, 2020, Page(s) 207-215, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0fd00024h

Convergent evolution of disordered lipidic structural colour in the fruits of <i>Lantana strigocamara</i> (syn. <i>L. camara</i> hybrid cultivar)

Author(s): Miranda A. Sinnott‐Armstrong; Yu Ogawa; Gea Theodora van de Kerkhof; Silvia Vignolini; Stacey D. Smith
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 235, 3, 2022, Page(s) 898-906, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.18262

Self-Reporting Fiber-Reinforced Composites That Mimic the Ability of Biological Materials to Sense and Report Damage

Author(s): Omar Rifaie-Graham, Edward A. Apebende, Livia K. Bast, Nico Bruns
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 30/19, 2018, Page(s) 1705483, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201705483

Effects of Silk Degumming Process on Physicochemical, Tensile, and Optical Properties of Regenerated Silk Fibroin

Author(s): Kira Nultsch, Livia K. Bast, Muriel Näf, Salima El Yakhlifi, Nico Bruns, Oliver Germershaus
Published in: Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Issue 303/12, 2018, Page(s) 1800408, ISSN 1438-7492
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/mame.201800408

Visual Appearance of Chiral Nematic Cellulose‐Based Photonic Films: Angular and Polarization Independent Color Response with a Twist

Author(s): Chun Lam Clement Chan, Mélanie M. Bay, Gianni Jacucci, Roberto Vadrucci, Cyan A. Williams, Gea T. de Kerkhof, Richard M. Parker, Kevin Vynck, Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 31, 52, 2019, Page(s) 1905151, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201905151

Replicating the complexity of natural surfaces: technique validation and applications for biomimetics, ecology and evolution

Author(s): Charchit Kumar, Alejandro Palacios, Venkata A. Surapaneni, Georg Bold, Marc Thielen, Erik Licht, Timothy E. Higham, Thomas Speck, Vincent Le Houérou
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 377/2138, 2018, Page(s) 20180265, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0265

Dewetting Rheology for Determining Viscoelastic Properties of Nonequilibrated Thin Polymer Films

Author(s): Austine A. Mulama, Sivasurender Chandran, Konstantinos Roumpos, Andrew O. Oduor, Günter Reiter
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 52/20, 2019, Page(s) 7894-7903, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01384

Rendering Polyurethane Hydrophilic for Efficient Cellulose Reinforcement in Melt-Spun Nanocomposite Fibers

Author(s): Alexandre Redondo, Livia K. Bast, Kenza Djeghdi, Martino Airoldi, Daseul Jang, LaShanda T. J. Korley, Ullrich Steiner, Nico Bruns, Ilja Gunkel
Published in: Advanced Materials Interfaces, Issue 10, 9, 2023, Page(s) 220197, ISSN 2196-7350
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202201979

Cellulose nanofiber nanocomposite pervaporation membranes for ethanol recovery

Author(s): Aristotelis Kamtsikakis; Sara McBride; Justin Orazio Zoppe; Christoph Weder
Published in: ACS Applied Nano Materials, Issue 4, 1, 2021, Page(s) 568-579, ISSN 2574-0970
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.0c02881

3D Printing of Liquid Crystalline Hydroxypropyl Cellulose—toward Tunable and Sustainable Volumetric Photonic Structures

Author(s): Chun Lam Clement Chan; Iek Man Lei; Gea T. van de Kerkhof; Richard M. Parker; Kieran D. Richards; Rachel C. Evans; Yan Yan Shery Huang; Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 32, 15, 2022, Page(s) 2108566, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202108566

Silk Sericin-Polylactide Protein–Polymer Conjugates as Biodegradable Amphiphilic Materials and Their Application in Drug Release Systems

Author(s): Kanittha Boonpavanitchakul, Livia K. Bast, Nico Bruns, Rathanawan Magaraphan
Published in: Bioconjugate Chemistry, Issue 31/10, 2020, Page(s) 2312-2324, ISSN 1043-1802
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00399

Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies

Author(s): Lukas Schertel, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Gianni Jacucci, Laura Catón, Yu Ogawa, Bodo D. Wilts, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini, Villads E. Johansen
Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Issue 17/166, 2020, Page(s) 20200196, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0196

Infiltration of Proteins in Cholesteric Cellulose Structures.

Author(s): Livia K. Bast; Konrad W. Klockars; Luiz G. Greca; Orlando J. Rojas; Orlando J. Rojas; Blaise L. Tardy; Nico Bruns; Nico Bruns
Published in: Biomacromolecules, Issue 22, 5, 2021, Page(s) 2067-2080, ISSN 1525-7797
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00183

Spatio-temporal development of cuticular ridges on leaf surfaces of Hevea brasiliensis alters insect attachment

Author(s): Venkata A. Surapaneni, Georg Bold, Thomas Speck, Marc Thielen
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 7/11, 2020, Page(s) 201319, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201319

Ultrastructure and optics of the prism-like petal epidermal cells of Eschscholzia californica (California poppy).

Author(s): Wilts, Bodo D; Rudall, Paula J; Moyroud, Edwige; Gregory, Tom; Ogawa, Yu; Vignolini, Silvia; Steiner, Ullrich; Glover, Beverley
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 219, 2018, Page(s) 1124-1133, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15229